This
story is a few months old now, but it is worth revisiting now in the midst of
the 2016 presidential election circus, for it says something about the way many
people in the States have been taught to view the artificial construct called America.
“We call our brothers and sisters in Christ to
discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of solidarity
of the whole Body of Christ, including our African-American brothers and
sisters,” states Resolution 7, passed today by an overwhelming majority of
messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).
[Baptist Press has the details.]
“It’s not often that I find myself wiping away
tears in a denominational meeting, but I just did,” wrote Russell Moore, president of the SBC’s Ethics and
Religious Liberty Commission. In a statement, Moore
noted:
The Southern Baptist Convention made history today
and made history in the right way. This denomination was founded by people who
wrongly defended the sin of human slavery. Today, the nation’s largest
Protestant denomination voted to repudiate the Confederate battle flag and it’s
time and well past time.
The Confederate flag is a symbol of horrific
injustices against our African American brothers and sisters in Christ and has
been used as a threat of terrorism against them. Today Southern Baptists
affirmed that we are more committed to the gospel than we are to a flag and
more committed to the future than we are to the past.
. . .
Source:
Sarah Zylstra, http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2016/june/southern-baptists-racial-reconciliation-sbc-civilitas-pca.html,
opened 4 Oct. 2016
It
is true that for the five years of the Confederacy’s life, a mild form of human
slavery existed there. It is also true
that some have misused the Flag of Northern Virginia to try to frighten black
folks.
But
something is missing here in Pres Moore’s statements and in those of the others
who agree with him. And that is a sense
of the broader historical picture.
Was
the South guilty of some wrongs to the African slaves? Yes.
Education for them was greatly restricted; families were sometimes
broken up; and so on. But it was not the
terrible incarnation of absolute evil that it is often portrayed as. But that point has been made before, here and
elsewhere.
What
is nearly beyond understanding is the way people like Pres Moore and others
denigrate Confederate symbols but show the deepest sort of reverence for those
of the American sort. Consider just some
of the evils done while the ‘sacred’ American flag looked on:
-Native Americans have been killed, uprooted, and
forced to live in concentration camps called reservations. Their harsh treatment continues to this day:
-Civilian Southerners, black and white, were
starved, raped, plundered, and murdered during the War and Reconstruction. Many of their churches and homes were wrecked
as well.
-The natives of the Philippines were brutalized by
American forces during the Spanish-American War.
-Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood to
abort the African population (and backwoods whites) out of existence in the
States.
-The federal government conducted experiments on
blacks without their knowledge (infecting them with syphilis, to name one).
-Civilians were continually bombed in Germany and Japan during WWII.
-The American army is the only one in the world to
use nuclear weapons on people.
-‘Regime change’ has been used routinely by the
American federal government to install political rulers loyal to it since the
time of the Cold War, whether in Central and South America, the Middle East,
Eastern Europe, etc., regardless of what was best for the native peoples of
those countries.
-American intelligence agencies used ‘terrorism’
(to use Pres Moore’s word) in NATO countries during the Cold War to influence
political decisions within them in ways favorable to America (Operation Gladdio).
-Hundreds of thousands have been killed in Iraq alone
during the ‘War on Terror’.
-America
now funds the Islamic State while claiming they are at war with them,
which, together with the rest of the War on Terror
and Arab Spring, has led to the suffering and slaughter of Christians across
North Africa and the Middle East.
We
will stop here, but more could be added.
Now,
considering the charges one could bring against the South and those that could
be brought against America,
one must ask: Where is the repentant
chest-beating, the self-flogging, the sentimental, teary-eyed moralizing of
people like Pres Moore in their quest for a removal of the American flag and
other American symbols?
It
isn’t there.
And
there is a reason it isn’t there. They
have confused the American nation with Christ’s Church, believing it to be The
Messiah Nation, which was to come into the world to utter the final great words
to mankind that would allow it to establish the Kingdom of Heaven
on earth. The South, being rooted in
tradition rather than the idea of Progress, threatened this project, and so,
then and now, she and her history and symbols must be lied about or stripped
from memory, by force if necessary.
Election
Day 2016 looms ever nearer, and too many Americans of all regions and States, Dixie included, are eager to participate in their ultimate
national religious ritual, voting for President. They think they are doing the Lord’s work in
maintaining a worldwide American Empire, but they will be surprised one day to
find that the spirit of Antichrist was at work in their enterprise.
If
Americans want to bewail a national sin, their false Christian empire of
abstract liberty, equality, and scientific progress, often forced on people who
don’t want it, which destroys extended families, hierarchies, stable economies,
and other good customs wherever it spreads, is one they should seriously
consider, not the display of the flag of a Christian people (Christ-haunted, at
least) with a Christian symbol on it.
--
Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the
South!
Anathema
to the Union!
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